Weenie roast? She's in!
This Coronet film tells teenaged girls: be a good girl like Caroline and you'll get a date (a real innocent one featuring a skating party and the aforementioned weenies). Be a bad girl and you get rejected and not taken seriously.
The bad girl is Ginny. There's a colour version of this film with less narration (the dialogue is heard instead) and red-lipsticked Ginny walking dejectedly in winter-time Chicago in her new red pumps. Jerry proudly tells a buddy "I had her out last night." He instantly sours when the buddy tells him "Yeah, so I hear. Tom had her out the night before last." Another friend (played by David Whitehouse) adds "Say, Bob said he had her out Friday, too." Sorry, Ginny, but boys in 1947 want their girls virginal.
Since this is a morality film, Jerry must be punished, too. He can't get a date for the Saturday dance because he thought Caroline would jump at the chance after a last-minute call from him, and lies to floozie Ginny about wanting to stay home. Sorry, but Wally's already moved in on Caroline.
The guy playing Jerry was no high schooler when this was shot. Bill Fein was a WW2 veteran, starring on radio in "Terry and the Pirates." A William Mason Fein, born in 1927, got his Bachelor of Science in Speech at Northwestern in 1951.
Shaya Nash played Ginny. She went to TV work in New York and sang with the Don Weigold Orchestra in Miami in the mid-'50s.
Every once in a while, the auteur in director Ted Peshak comes out. At 5:36 , he shoots like scene in a mirror. At 5:50 instead of Caroline going to where the phone is, she reaches around so she can still be in camera range.
Not as fun as a couple of Coronet's other dating classics (Dating Dos and Don'ts, What To Do on a Date).

After the starking realism of 'Angry Boy', it's nice to turn to such a ludicrous piece of pap as 'Are You Popular?' Where we find out that 'Boys don't hang out with girls that park in cars'. This film has been used in so many social film compilations that it's extremely familiar, but it's nice to see the whole thing. Teenagers are of course, played to such a ludicrous degree by the actors it's hard to imagine what the teens in the 50's thought. Heaven forbid that they would treat this seriously.